(R)?ex the friendly automation framework

News

The Rex-1.11.0 release is now available on CPAN. It enhances the behaviour of sysctl and file management, fixes bugs about group management and OpenSSH connection options, and clarifies quite a bit of documentation.

Get Rex

CPAN

The recommended way to get Rex is to install it from CPAN into your user account's own Perl environment (managed by e.g. local::lib, Perlbrew or similar). You can simply use your preferred client, for example:

$ cpanm Rex

While it's possible to install Rex system-wide from CPAN, for that use case you might be interested in checking out packages for your operating system.

Package managers

Official packages

Rex is distributed via package managers for many different operating systems. The Repology page of Rex is perhaps the most complete and up-to-date list of available Rex packages.

We encourage you to help those package management projects to distribute Rex. We are happy to support the process, so feel free to get us involved too.

Community packages

If you maintain a repository or an overlay which includes Rex for your distribution, and you would like to get it listed here, just let us know.

Installing from source

You can clone our GitHub repository to install Rex from source. Development is done in the master branch, and we also tag each release there. Installing from source requires Dist::Zilla: